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Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday full of good food, family, friends, and football (and it would be great if the earlier-every-year Christmas season quit butting in). Since it’s one of the few times a year many people see their extended family, including members with different political views and football allegiances, it’s hard to come up with conversation topics with broad appeal. But this year there’s one topic we can all get behind: the downsides of zoning.

Zoning has many pernicious effects so there’s something for everybody. For the liberty-minded, Ron-Swanson-like uncle (or aunt), mention how zoning can act as a regulatory taking that deprives people of the full use of their property. As law professor Richard Epstein explains, by prohibiting certain uses zoning makes it easier for the government to secure private land under the guise of furthering some—often tenuous—public-use goal. What gun-toting survivalist would support that?

For your sibling’s vegan, shop-local, save-the-whales significant other, explain how minimum parking requirements lead to more sprawl, more driving, and more pollution. If we charged market prices for parking spaces it would make driving more expensive, incentivizing people to walk, bike, or car pool. Parking lots also take up space in many downtowns that could be used for more housing or parks.

For your owning-a-home-is-the-American-Dream parents or grandparents who are also mindful of their retirement portfolios, explain how zoning reduces overall economic growth by making it harder for people to move to the most productive areas of the country. Making it easier to build more housing and businesses will boost U.S. GDP and the stock market.

Finally, if there are any Marxists in attendance, point out that wide streets—a trademark of the auto-centric development modern zoning supports—have been used as tools of oppression. Boulevards, highways, and parkways allow those in power to easily mobilize armed forces to squash rebellions or political disturbances. Less zoning and more density in our cities are ways to stick it to the man.